Society needs brahmins—the intelligent class who know God—to guide civilization toward truth and away from chaotic relativism.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: …just like you are also following the instructions, spiritual instructions. So we teach your disciples to observe these four regulative principles, they become [indistinct] according to the advice from the brāhmaṇas. It is very good, yad yad ācarati śreṣṭhas [Bg 3.21]. If the leaders of the society accept something, then the followers, they also accept.
So that brainwork must be there. Just like in the whole body, the brain is the most important part. If one of your arms is cut off, you do not die; but if the head is cut off, you will die. So the brāhmaṇa community of the society must be maintained; otherwise who will guide?
Without brain, who will guide the arms and the legs and the head? So at the present moment that is lacking. The brain society is practically nil, and they are not eager to establish or to educate a section of people to become perfect brāhmaṇas. There is no such arrangement. There is engineering college, medical college—so many different departments are there, educational institutions—but there is no institution throughout the whole world how to train a class of men to become perfect brāhmaṇas, or intelligent class.
That is this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. We are just trying to set up a section of the people to become very, very intelligent. And who is very, very intelligent? One who knows God.
He is intelligent. That is the end of knowledge. As any educational program it has got an end, so we are getting knowledge in so many ways, but end of knowledge is to know God. That is called Vedānta.
Vedā means “knowledge”; anta means “end.” Yasmin vijñāte sarvam idaṁ vijñātaṁ bhavati [Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad 1.3(1)]. That is the end of knowledge. Simply by knowing God, you know everything. So that knowledge is lacking at the present moment. So we are trying to give this knowledge to human society.
Anyone helps this movement, he also becomes recognized by God. [aside:] Take this light, this one. The corner, that corner there it is possible. Brain must be maintained.